Posted on 08/23/2009 11:36:26 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Former US presidential nominee Mike Huckabee says Israel is much better favored by the American evangelicals than by the American Jewish community.
"Maybe one of the hard things is to convince some of our Jewish friends that Evangelicals are the best friends they've got - because I think generally, that's the case," Huckabee said in the epilogue to a three-day visit to Israel.
"Evangelicals are so much more supportive of Israel than the American Jewish community," he added in an interview with the CBN News.
He said that the evangelical Christians were, unlike Jews, consistently supportive of the Israeli territorial assertions.
"I don't find that kind of dichotomy generally within the Evangelical community…. It's pretty adamant: There ought to be one city. It ought to be a Jewish state. And it ought to be secure."
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Hard to disagree there.
A lot of Jews in this country would have made excellent Kapos for the Nazis.
For once I am actually going to agree with the Huckster. He is right, American Jews don’t care for Israel, but Israeli Born Jews definitely care for Israel. Look at how many of them voted for Obama, that shows everything right there
4% of the American Jewish Voting Community listed Israel as their main concern at the polls, so politically speaking I think Huck is correct, but watch the media try and blow this into something it is not.
They did exactly that to John Hagee, and he started Christians United for Israel the media will stop at nothing to smear and slander anyone who is not a liberal or a prog..
American Jews fear good Christians like Mike Huckabee more than the Hamas. If Hitler came back to life and ran as a pro-abortion Democrat, American Jews would overwhelmingly pick Hitler over Huckabee.
There’s a lot of them here in L.A.: the self-hating Jews. They just “talk” about their love for Israel but the ugly truth is that they simply don’t.
As a filthy gentile, here’s something I never understood regarding Israel. If most Israeli citizens are relatively secular (as I’ve seen suggested in multiple polls and so on), and their geographic location makes peace impossible (imagine placing a cat in the middle of a kennel of rabid dogs) why pick that place to begin with? The only logical reason would be to reclaim a Biblical homeland which is extremely difficult to place precisely, especially the Old Testement/Torah. It’s just something that never made alot of sense to me and has caused a TON of problems globally over the past 70 years.
American Jewish Democrats don’t care about israel but then there are also American Evangelical Christian Democrats, like Carter, who are very anti-Israel
liberalism messes everyone up
Agree. Every Jew I know, and I know several, voted for Zero.
my take on the American Jewish community is real simple. If you are a right wing and Jewish you would be living in Israel.
The sad part is these self-hating Jews KNOW obama will throw Israel under the bus at every opportunity.
I know plenty of (conservative) American Jews who consistently support conservative Israeli territorial assertions but at the same time have concerns closer to home that take precedence over Israel -- concerns like liberals destroying our own country, for instance. American Jews can (and often do) fully support hardcore conservative Israeli positions while at the same time not having it be their #1 political concern. Why, because they're Americans, not Israelis.
We got A LOT of self hating Jews in Los Angeles. My aunt lives in Beverlywood, LARGE Jewish community, during the election, almost every single house on her street had Obama/Biden posters. My Mom’s family are all from Israel(Sister and two brothers) they all supported McCain, but my uncle’s son(A big lib) I asked him before the election “Obama doesn’t care about supporting Israel” and he told me “Oh Israel is my Dad’s thing, not mine.”
What?
Where else would you find the cities, landmarks and bodies of water with those names?
It’s just something that never made alot of sense to me and has caused a TON of problems globally over the past 70 years.
Yes, it should have been a much larger piece of real estate. Where would you have it...New Jersey?
Bookmarked!
The Jews did not pick the spot (Israel) for a Nation. God picked it for them.
Nobody likes a kibitzer, Huck.
In my youth there was an undercurrent of suspicion about Jews having dual loyalities to both the US and Israel. In those days when the mistrust of Communism was a fact of life there were enough reasons for the right to look apprehensively at Jews who were for the most part brought up in the leftist-labor-socialist tradition. The fact that several high level Soviet spies were Jewish Americans of course didn’t help matters.
Today all that has been turned on its head and the greatest friend of the Jewish state is that same right that worried about dual loyalities-except today it seems the peeve of the right is that American Jews are not loyal enough to Israel.
The world has truly turned upside down.
Well, for one thing, you don't find large tracts of protectorate land being divvied up into new states every day. The truth is, Israel slipped into existence through a hairline crack in history. That doesn't detract in the slightest from her legitimacy, any more than the Kingdom of Jordan. But it is true.
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